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Nine wasted a golden opportunity to open up a good lead for the start of the week. The Block made a huge surge, benefiting from the Nine News lead-in (again, in Sydney there was drop off from the news to The Block) to become the most-watched program of the night. The room reveal episode peaked at 2.37 million and was close to where The Block rated in 2004. Panic at Rock Island flopped as widely expected, meaning Nine only beat Seven by 0.5% in primary channels. Seven was hit left, right and centre, with Great Migrations suffering a big drop, and new episodes of Bones and Castle only posting solid figures and came second behind Midsomer Murders. Seven was saved by the AFL derby in Perth between the Eagles and the Dockers, which boosted the figures for the 6pm news in Perth.Huge audience for MC, but Ten will be disappointed with the debut audience for The Renovators despite blanket promotions. It retained half of the audience from the MC lead-in and only won in 18-49 in the timeslot. Merlin rose on last week up against SN and The Block.SBS's coverage of Tour de France set another audience record as Cadel Evans became the first Australian to win the race. Midsomer Murders also did well for the ABC, winning its timeslot.On digital channels, there was a tie between GO! and One, as well between 7TWO and 7mate.

Excellent ratings by The Block and solid figures posted by double episodes of RSO (the second episode won its timeslot) helped Nine winning the night in primary channels and total people.After a lower than expected opening, The Renovators enjoyed a healthy rise, adding 120,000 viewers, much to Ten's relief. MC also went back on top. However Can of Worms, showing at the later timeslot due to The Renovators, suffered a big drop, just beating Q&A into third.Seven came third in primary channels and second in total people. The second last episode of TAR suffered an unexpected fall against The Renovators (but consolidated figures, to be released next week, should boost the audience back to its average level of around 1.1 million).

The grand final performance episode of AGT posted a new record audience for Seven last night, not only smashing the previous best of 1.955 million for winner's announcement on June 15 last year, but also that for the grand final performance on June 8 (1.831 million). Last night's two-hour extravaganza delivered Seven a crushing win, and also single-handedly helped Seven regain the lead for the week. The Australian version of Dinner Date, hosted by My Kitchen Rules judge (and recent Dancing with the Stars winner) Manu Feildel, benefited from the AGT lead-in and posted a healthy figure of 1.1 million.MC was hit hard by AGT and dropped 100,000 viewers week-on-week. But The Renovators held up firm against AGT, which will no doubt please Ten.The Block was the standout program for Nine on what was otherwise a shocking night. New episodes of Top Gear UK and James May's Man Lab flopped.

Seven pulled off a surprise win last night, however it had more to do with the failure of Top Design on Nine than solid ratings from Seven's line-up. After dropping below the 800,000 mark last week, Top Design lost another 100,000 viewers last night, to finish a distant third in the timeslot.Ten won the 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54 demographics in both primary channels and combined shares. MC won the timeslot but failed to gain extra viewers with less than two weeks to go. The Renovators fell against Criminal Minds and attracted less viewers than Sunday's premiere, but dominated in the demos.Spicks and Specks, Angry Boys and The Defenders all went up on last week. The ABC however will be disappointed with the overall ratings performance of Angry Boys. The Chris Lilley comedy attracted 1.3 million viewers for the first two episodes, but it went downhill from there.Average figures for the premiere of Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey.

Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year got off to a great start, trouncing its opposition in the 8.30pm timeslot. The New York-based show for radio hosts Hamish Blake and Andy Lee helped Nine to a big win last night, posting the highest nightly share result all survey year thus far for 25-54s (39.7%), 18-49s (40.8%) and 16-39s (42.7%), eclipsing such events as the 2011 State of Origin series. Gap Year was the most watched program in Melbourne last night, outrating MasterChef.Nine clawed back most of the deficit it suffered on Tuesday, now trailing Seven by 1% for the week. Nine’s other star performers included The Block, the AFL Footy Show, and Today, which beat Sunrise in Sydney and Melbourne by big margins.Law & Order: LA rose from the low total for last week's premiere, but was still thrashed by Gap Year and The Renovators. Seven came a distant third for the night and will need to win Friday and Saturday to be assured of claiming another weekly victory.MC’s elimination episode (which saw Ellie bowing out) posted a good total, but with only one week to go, it should have got more than 1.51 million. The Renovators rose from Wednesday night.

Seven won the night (albeit unconvincingly) and should have enough buffer to survive Nine's onslaught tonight, led by Harry Potter, to win the week. After losing to Today on Thursday, Sunrise (with Andrew O'Keefe taking over from David Koch who is on holidays) fought back to win the breakfast slot yesterday.The live NRL games did very well in both Sydney and Brisbane.

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Programming updateChannel Seven*Seven has scheduled to specials next week World's Most Extreme Airports and WWII Lost Films: The Air War. Both will air at 7:30pm, on Monday August 1 and Thursday August 4, respectively. However in Adelaide, Great Migrations will be shown at 7:30pm on August 4. The episode has been held over due to Seven's coverage of the AFL match between Adelaide and Port Adelaide.The move appears to be to avoid the obvious interest in MasterChef's final week.Playing the 90 minute World's Most Extreme Airports will push back the 90 minute finale of The Amazing Race Australia to a 9pm start next Monday.*Seven did a sneaky on Wednesday (July 27) and played two episodes of Covert Affairs instead of the advertised one episode without sending out an amendment. Two episodes will also air next week (August 3). Detroit 187 will be back with episode 14 on August 10 at 10:30pm.*For some reason, Castle will revert back to repeats on Sunday August 7.*The season final of Keeping Up with the Kardashians will air Tuesday August 9 at 11pm.*Perfect Couples, the now axed 13 part American comedy will premiere Tuesday August 9 at 11:30pm. The half-hour romantic comedy was co-created by Jon Pollack and Scott Silveri and premiered on NBC in January 2011 as a mid-season replacement but was cancelled on May 13. Perfect Couples revolves around three couples at various stages in their relationships, yet who face similar problems. Vance and Amy are a couple who fight a lot and have a very active sex life. Rex and Leigh view themselves as relationship experts and therefore a "perfect couple", while Dave and Julia are considered the normal pair to whom everyone can relate.

Channel Nine*As there was a change to the line-up on Monday July 25 (two episodes of Rescue Special Ops) the season final of CSI: Miami will now be seen on Monday August 1 at 9:30pm in Sydney and Brisbane on Nine. Other states will get a repeat as they have already completed the season.*The Tri-Nations Rugby match between New Zealand and Australia (which is also deemed a Bledisloe Cup game) will be shown on Nine on Saturday August 6 at 5:30pm in NSW/ACT/QLD, leading into Nine News at 7:30pm and Australia's Funniest Home Videos at 8pm. The match will be shown in NT at 5pm. WA viewers will also see the game live at 3:30pm as it falls outside of prime time. VIC, SA and TAS viewers will see a heavy delay of 6 hours with the game being televised at 11:30pm.

GO!*The US version of The Voice will premiere on GO! on Tuesday, August 9, at 7.30pm. The talent series, featuring judges Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton, has been a big hit in the US as it looks for the next singing sensation.Nine has picked up the rights to an Australian series, to be produced by Shine Australia. It is expected to air in 2012.The series has the judges hearing acts "blind", with their chairs turned around, before they see the singer's audition.*Due to classification reasons, the digital channel has skipped two first-run episodes of Community. The two M-rated episodes will air late on Sunday nights in the next two weeks, with episode 9 of Season 2 airing at 11:30pm on July 31 and episode 20 at 11:15pm at 11.15pm.

Channel TenDuring the AFL season last year there was an episode of Law & Order: SVU that was played only in Sydney and other states missed because of AFL commitments. This episode will be aired on Thursday August 4 at 9pm on Ten and will obviously be a new episode for everyone except Sydney.EDIT 7/8: Ten has scraped the plan to show this episode and instead aired the next new episode from the current season which is episode 22 in season 12.

ElevenThe digital channel has decided to screen back to back episodes of The Biggest Loser US on Saturday August 13 from 8:30pm. Nothing massively out of the ordinary there except for the fact that each episode is 2 hours. So that is 4 hours of the show in one night. Eleven are playing the seventh season of the show which was the longest American season at 19 episodes.

ABC*Starting on Wednesday August 24 is Poh's Kitchen On The Road. Poh Ling Yeow (Season One MasterChef runner up) will be on a culinary adventure to meet some of the country's finest producers and chefs who know how to bring out the best in their produce.Poh uncovers the local food secrets from Flinders Ranges, Eyre and Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia; Melbourne and the Victorian alps; King Island and central Tasmania; Sydney; Perth, the Kimberley’s; and Northern Queensland. She also takes a trip to Singapore and Chiang Mai and Bangkok in Thailand.Poh's Kitchen On The Road will replace The New Inventors and air at 8pm Wednesdays starting August 24 on ABC1.

SBS*This week SBS began another Danish drama series, The Protectors (not to be confused with the Brit series of the same name!).This Danish crime series focuses on the lives and missions of the specialists and their superiors, while also portraying the people they protect.The 10 part series, which was made in 2008, began on Thursday, July 28 at 10pm on SBS ONE.*From last night, the SBS "naughty slot" began a series called Sex: An Unnatural History which looks at the sexual history of Australia. Julia Zemiro hosts this series which uses archival material and interviews with social and scientific experts. It begins 10pm Friday July 29 on SBS ONE.

Seven survived a third-place finish on Thursday and another onslaught from Nine to win the week. Seven has now won the first 23 weeks of ratings season but it is due to for a loss this week, even with the winner's announcement of Australia's Got Talent.Nine again topped all 3 key demos: 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54 with Seven in third place.Seven was first in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, but Nine won Melbourne and Brisbane.Seven took out Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday while Nine won Sunday Monday and Thursday. Ten bettered Seven on Thursday.

A rare win to Ten last night in combined shares thanks largely to another massive figure for MC as the series enters the finals week (although it was well down on the equivalent episode last year). The season finale of Merlin, the repeat of The Devil Wears Prada and live F1 on One also contributed to Ten’s success.The Block slipped a bit from last week but still recorded a big audience (it also won in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide). Premiere movie Angels and Demons was well beaten in its timeslot though.Seven won in primary channels. The AFL provided a huge lead-in to Seven News, which in turn boosted the audience for Sunday Night (in Adelaide, where it was shown at 7.30pm, it came second in the timeslot behind MC, but just ahead of 60 Minutes). Great Migrations slipped further even though it did not air in Adelaide, affecting ratings for Bones. Castle however won its timeslot.

After uncharacteristically dropping below the one million mark last week, The Amazing Race Australia bounced back last night to post a good figure for the finale. The unusual late start did not deter 1.2 million viewers watching the 90-minute episode, in which Sydney surfers Tyler Adkins and Nathan Jolliffe took the $250,000 prizemoney when they arrived at the finish line in Perth. Based on overnight figures, the finale was the third-most watched episode of the entire season nationally, below episode 1 (1.258 million) and episode 6 (1.213 million). In Perth, the finale was the third-most watched program of the night (behind Seven News and Today Tonight) but was the most-watched episode of the entire series, given local models Renae Wauhop and Sam Schoers were competing (they eventually finished second). Overall, it was a solid outing for the first ever Australian version of The Amazing Race, averaging 1.125 million viewers per episode. Seven, which has commissioned a second season, should be pleased with the show's performance.Combined with solid figures for Home and Away and The World's Most Extreme Airports, it was enough for Seven to take out the night in primary channels and combined shares. Seven also took the lead for the week from Ten.While MC was again the most-watched program of the night, it dropped nearly 150,000 viewers from Sunday and was well down on the equivalent episode 12 months ago. The Renovators still hovered around the 900,000 mark, while Can of Worms was trounced by TAR.The Block attracted just less than 1.4 million viewers and was Nine's most-watched program of the night. RSO dropped a bit from last week as news came through that it had been axed by the network.

Last night's Australia's Got Talent delivered record ratings for Seven, smashing the previous high of 2.2 million viewers for the grand final performances last week and the 1.95 million for the finale last year. The winner's announcement is now the most-watched program on Australian TV this year, well above game 3 of Rugby League State of Origin (2.45 million). The two-hour extravaganza, which saw 14-year-old Jack Vidgen taking out the top prize, is the most-watched episode of all four seasons of AGT, and was enough to deliver a resounding victory for Seven for the night. Winners & Losers, which followed AGT, also continued its good ratings run.MC posted an excellent total against AGT finale, and beat the latter in 18-49 and 25-54 demographics when the two programs went head-to-head from 7.30pm to 8.40pm. However, the audience for MC was well below 2.397 million for the corresponding episode last year. The Renovators held up quite well against AGT.Nine had a bad, bad night, apart from good figures for The Block.

Seven won the night on the back of solid ratings for season finales of Highway Patrol and Criminal Minds. But its victory for the week was sealed the night before with the extraordinary ratings for the finale of Australia's Got Talent. Even if Seven capitulates tonight (Thursday), its lead for the week is too big for Nine and Ten to catch up.On a week when Ten is supposedly to shine with the finals week of MasterChef and the second week of The Renovators, all it has managed so far is second place for the week. MC posted an impressive ratings for the major challenge (in which each of top 3 contestants Alana Lowes, Kate Bracks and Michael Weldon worked in one of Sydney's top restaurant and making one dish each for the menu), however the figures for the 90-minute special was way down on the equivalent episode last year (2.467 million). And The Renovators slipped from Tuesday, pulling less than 800,000 viewers.More bad news for Nine with Top Design shedding more viewers; last night it attracted less than 600,000 viewers even with The Block as lead-in. So much so it will be shown from 8pm next Wednesday. But with only two weeks of The Block remaining, Top Design will only get minimal boost for its ratings.The Gruen Transfer started its new season with good ratings.

Despite a 36% drop in the audience watching Hamish and Andy's Gap Year, Nine still won the night comfortably in primary channels and total people. The Block was Nine's most-watched program of the night (and second most-watched overall) while Hot Property went up slightly from last week. Today beat Sunrise by just 1,000 viewers, even though the former won by big margins in Sydney, Melbourne.The final elimination of MasterChef for this season posted impressive figures, however it was a sharp fall from last year's episode, which pulled 2.52 million. Basically, this season of MC simply ran out of steam, facing challenges from all fronts. Better news for Ten with The Renovators hitting the one million mark for the first time.Seven came third again last night, even its digital channels performed well (7mate was boosted by the premiere of the Family Guy version of the final episode of Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi). World War II: The Lost Films rated better than The Vicar of Dibley last week but wa still well behind Nine and Ten. Law & Order: Los Angeles again lost to SVU.

The final MasterChef MasterClass attracted a good audience, and was the second most-watched program of the night. However, the figures were well down on the past two years (1.95 million in 2009 and 1.88 million in 2010). It was only the second time this season that the MasterClass pulled one million viewers (it grabbed 1.02 million on May 6, at the end of Top 50 week). It reflected the overall decline in the ratings of the third season of MasterChef. The first How To episode of The Renovators could only retain half of the MC lead-in, but did better than the past few weeks when repeat movies or first-run dramas like Burn Notice could only attract around 400,000 viewers.Seven just beat Nine to win the night in primary channels and total people, thanks to the AFL match between St Kilda and Fremantle. The Tigers-Dragons NRL clash did very well in Sydney, pulling just under 500,000 viewers. Today beat Sunrise for the second time in a row.

On a week when Ten was set to dominate with the finals of MasterChef, it was Seven which triumphed on the back of huge ratings of the finale of Australia's Got Talent. Amended figures saw the winner's announcement of AGT going up from the already massive total of 2.885 million to 2.908 million, while the finale itself was revised up slightly to 2.324 million.For its efforts, Ten could only finish third for the week. It won 16-39 demographics, Seven won 18-49 and 25-54.Seven won Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Ten won Sunday and Nine won Thursday. Ten ranked ahead of Nine on Tuesday and Wednesday.Seven had a clean sweep of all five metro cities.

The one-sided Bledisloe Cup clash from Auckland attracted 581,000 viewers nationally on Nine (the match was also shown live on GEM in Melbourne and Adelaide). Take away the figures for replay in Melbourne and Adelaide, the three-city total was 552,000, which was slightly up on last year's 481,000.Live coverage of the rugby in Sydney and Brisbane did not provide a boost to Seven News however. Seven won the night in primary channels, digital channels and total people, thanks to its news and the repeat of National Treasure on the main channel, as well as repeats of Heartbeat and Inspector Morse on 7TWO.

The finale of MasterChef Australia's third season helped Ten winning the night, but the average audience and the network share were both lower than last year.Ten's decision to split the finale into two angered many viewers, but the tactic seemed to have worked. Part 1, which aired from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, attracted an average audience of 1.81 million. It easily beat both Sunday Night and The Block, and it was the first and only time that MC beat The Block when they went head-to-head.Ten's decision to sandwich The Renovators between the two-part MasterChef finale paid off, attracting its highest audience to date with 1.269 million.Part 2 of the finale, which aired from 8.35pm to 9.37pm, averaged 2.33 million and peaked at 2.69 million. The winner announcement (9.37pm to 9.53pm) averaged 2.568 million viewers (2.659 million based on Ten's correct times) and peaked at 2.78 million. It was down 35.2 per cent on last year's record 3.962 million. The audience for the winner announcement put it behind that of Australia's Got Talent (2.855 million), but part 2 of the finale was just higher than that of AGT (2.316 million).Ten recorded a combined share of 33.6%, much lower than 44.3% for the finale last year. The primary channel share of 27.9% was also lower than last year's 41.8%. The finale and the winner announcement both easily won in all major demographics including over-55s.This year's MC audience has been down about 15 per cent, for an average 1.64 million viewers compared with last year's 1.93 million.There was some joy for Nine however, with The Block - Room Winner Revealed (7.30pm – 8pm) attracting an average audience of 1.820 million with a peak of 2.080 million viewers and easily won its timeslot against The Renovators, Great Migrations and Grand Designs. The double repeats of The Mentalist could only grab around 310,000 viewers, worse than the CSI triple header last year (495,000).Elsewhere, it was business as usual for Sunday Night, 60 Minutes and Midsomer Murders. But Bones and Castle were hit hard by the MC finale and Great Migrations finished on a low.

Ten's decision to sandwich The Renovators between the finales of MasterChef Australia backfired last night, when the renovation competition posted a series low. It was trounced by The Block between 7.30pm and 8pm (and actually came fourth in the half hour) before bouncing in 8pm-8.30pm timeslot. Can of Worms, which followed The Renovators, rated reasonably well. Ten finished a narrow fourth in primary channel share, just 0.1% behind the ABC.The Block posted its highest figure for a Monday episode with the all-important auction less than two weeks away. However it was not enough to help Nine winning the night. The season two premiere of Hot in Cleveland wasted a huge lead-in from The Block, dragging down the ratings for axed series Rescue Special Ops.Seven won the night on the back of solid ratings from Home and Away, Unlikely Animal Friends and the premiere of Body of Proof.